Stitching Holiday Traditions with Martha Mcintosh

Stitching Holiday Traditions is a special series of the Stitch Please podcast. These are first-person narratives from women in the Black Women Stitch community. They talk about how the December holidays bring about their creative spirit. Learn how their sewing and making enhances their celebrations. Special guest host, Martha Mcintosh a.k.a. Garichild, takes listeners back in time granting them a front row view from her grandmother's Livingston, Guatemala home as the sun rises and ceremonies begin. The strength of Martha's connections to her Garifuna roots is boundless and palpable in this episode as she explores the rich traditions of her people and the focus it brings to her Christmas celebration. Through spoken word, dance, song, rhythm, music, costumery, color, and a bit of trickery, discover how Martha and her family carry traditional celebrations forward well before Christmas so that, to use Martha's words, "when Christmas comes the energy is bubbling."